US DOC made final rule on AD duty on stainless rod from India.

It's reported that on September 3rd that US Department of Commerce made final ruling on anti dumping administrative review against stainless steel rod imports from India for the period from February 1st 2008 through January 31st 2009.

On March 15th 2010, the Department of Commerce published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from India for the period February 1, 2008, through January 31st 2009.

The Department conducted a post preliminary analysis and released the results of the analysis on May 19th 2010. We gave the interested parties an opportunity to comment on the Preliminary Results and the post preliminary analysis. Based on our analysis of the comments received, we have made changes to the margin calculation. The final weighted average dumping margins for the reviewed firms, Ambica Steels Limited and Venus Wire Industries Pvt Limited are listed below in the section entitled Final Results of Review.

For the reasons explained in the Preliminary Results, we have determined that Venus Wire Industries Pvt Limited and its affiliates, Precision Metals and Sieves Manufacturers (India) Pvt Limited, should be treated as a single entity and collapsed for the purposes of this review.

In the Preliminary Results, we relied on facts otherwise available in determining that there was linkage between Venus' costs and prices, which resulted in Venus' antidumping margin being calculated using quarterly costs. We also noted in the Preliminary Results that we would reexamine this issue based on additional information submitted by the company. On May 19th 2010, we released our post preliminary analysis in which we determined that the application of the quarterly costing methodology to Venus was not warranted because we did not find correlation between cost and price trends.

On July 16th 2010, US DOC published in the Federal Register an extension of the time limit for the completion of the final results of this review until no later than August 27th 2010, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2).

We invited parties to comment on the Preliminary Results. We received case briefs on June 3, 2010, from Venus and June 7, 2010, from Carpenter Technology Corporation, Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc., Electralloy Corporation, a Division of G.O. Carlson, Inc., Universal Stainless (“Petitioners”). On June 16, 2010, Venus submitted a rebuttal brief, and on June 18, 2010, Petitioners submitted a rebuttal brief. Ambica did not submit any comments. None of the parties requested a hearing.

Imports covered by the order are shipments of SSB. SSB means articles of stainless steel in straight lengths that have been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along their whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other convex polygons. SSB includes cold-finished SSBs that are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether produced from hot rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other deformations produced during the rolling process.

Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless steel semi finished products, cut to length flat rolled products, wire and angles, shapes and sections.

The SSB subject to this review is currently classifiable under subheadings 7222.11.00.05, 7222.11.00.50, 7222.19.00.05, 7222.19.00.50, 7222.20.00.05, 7222.20.00.45, 7222.20.00.75, and 7222.30.00.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States. Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, our written description of the scope of the order is dispositive.
The Department shall determine, and US Customs and Border Protection shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). The Department intends to issue appropriate assessment instructions for the companies subject to this review to CBP 15 days after the date of publication of these final results.

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), for all sales made by the respondent for which it has reported the importer of record and the entered value of all the US sales to that importer, we have calculated importer specific assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of antidumping duties calculated for the examined sales to the total entered value of those sales. Where the respondent did not report the entered value for all US sales to an importer, we have calculated importer-specific assessment rates for the merchandise in question by aggregating the dumping margins calculated for all U.S. sales to each importer and dividing this amount by the total quantity of those sales.

Source : steelguru.com